New Life, New Tenant for Historic Cartersville Building

Darrah Photography is the first to move into the old Nantucket plant at 100 Cook Street, which is being renovated for multiple uses by John Lewis and Dean Lewis, who are not related.

Darrah Photo is the first tenant in a historic Cartersville building being renovated for shops, loft apartments and maybe a restaurant. "[Developer] John [Lewis] had wanted us to be a tenant of his for years, and he just never had a building that would work for us," said Kaysi Darrah. "When he purchased this huge shell, he said, 'I know I've got it....'" Built in 1941 and reportedly once the largest chenille plant in the world, according to Lewis of John S. Lewis Property Management, the old Nantucket building at 100 Cook Street is zoned for residential, commercial, retail and warehouse uses. He and development partner Dean Lewis, father of Bartow County sole commissioner candidate Tracy Lewis and former state rep and current State …

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